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39 Cards in this Set
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Specialized tasks performed in a business organization, including manufacturing and production, sales and marketingm finance and accounting, and human resources.
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Business Functions
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The unique way in which organizations coordinate and organize work activities, information, and knowledge to produce a produect or service
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Business processes
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Physical devices and software that link various computer hardware components and transfer data fro one physical location to another
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Communication technology
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Additional assets required to derive value from a primary investment
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Complementary assets
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Information systems that rely on computer hardware and software for processing and disseminating information
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Computer-based information systems
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Physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an information system
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Computer hardware
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Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding how computer-based technologies work
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Computer literacy
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Detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the work of computer hardware components in an information system
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Computer software
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Streams of raw facts representing events occuring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and orranged into a form that people can understand and use
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Data
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People such as secretaries or bookkeepers who process the organization's paperwork
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Data workers
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Organization in which nearly all significant business processes and relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and key corporate assets are managed through digital means
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Digital Firm
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Use of the internet and related technologies in digitally enable government and public sector agencies' relationships with citizensm businesses, and other arms of government
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E-government
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The use of the internet and digital technology to execute all the business processe in the enterprise. Includes e-commerce as well as processes for the internal management of the firm and for coordination with suppliers and other business partners.
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Electronic business (e-business)
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The process of buying and selling goods and services electronically, involving transactions using the internet, networks, and other digital technologies
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Electronic commerce (e-commerce)
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Private intranet that is accessible to authorizzed outsiders
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Extranets
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Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct input
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Feedback
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System resting on accepted and fixed definitions of data and procedures, operating with predefined rules
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Formal Sytems
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Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings
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Information
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Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision making, coordinationm control, analysism and visualization in an organization
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Information systems
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Broad-based understanding of information systems that includes behavioral knowlege about organizations and individuals using information systems as well as technical knowledge about computers
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Information systems literacy
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Computer hardware, software, data, storage technology, and networks providing a portfolio of shared IT resources for the organization
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Information technology (IT) infrastruture
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The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or from its external environment for processing in an information system
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Input
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International network of networks that is a collection of hundreds of thousands of private and public networks
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Internet
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An internal network based on internet and world wide web technology and standards
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Intranets
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Products that require a great deal of learning and knowledge to produce
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Knowledge- and information-intensive products
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People such as engineers or arcitechswho design products or services and create knowledge for the organization
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Knowledge workers
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The study of information systems focusing on their use in business and management
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MIS
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People in the middle of the organizational hierarchy who are responsible for carrying out the plabs abd gaols of senior management
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Middle Managers
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The linking of two or more computers to share data or resources, such as a printer
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Network
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People who monitor the day-to-day activities of the computer
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Operational managers
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investments in organization and management such as new business processes, management behavior, organizational culture, or training
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Organizational and management capital
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The distribution of processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used
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Output
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The conversion, manipulation, and analysis of raw input into a form that is more meaningful to humans
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Processing
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People who who actually produce the products or services of the organization
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Production or service workers
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People occupying the topmost hierarchy in an organization who are responisble for making long-range decisions.
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Senior managers
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Optimal organizational performance is achieved by jointly optimizing both the social and technical systems used in production; view
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Sociotechnical view
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Physical media and software governing the storage and organization of data for use in an information systems
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Storage technology
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All of the World Wide Web pages maintained by an organization or an individual
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Web site
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A system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying, information in a networked environment
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World Wide Web
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